graceful
graceful is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- academical
- antithesis
- artistic
- chaste
- classical
- classicalism
- classicism
- concinnity
- correct
- ease
- easy
- elegance
- elegant
- euphemism
- euphemistic
- euphonious
- euphony
- felicitous
- flowing
- fluent
- grace
- happy
- mellifluous
- natural
- neat
- neatly
- numerosity
- period
- place
- point
- polished
- pure
- purist
- purity
- put
- readable
- readiness
- rhythmical
- right
- round
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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